and a lot of people warned that it would be south america, or even north america. we actually at one point -- roosevelt sent troops to greenland to make sure that they didn't go there. because that would have been a nice stepping stone to this country. the real menace when hitler began pounding great britain, was if great britain fell, not only would hitler get its resources and maybe even its navy, but that is the navy we counted on to control the atlantic. the american fleet is install the -- is all in the pacific, as pearl harbor demonstrated, and what would happen if hitler controlled the atlantic? we would have no trade routes, know capacity for getting out of our own ports, and at that time, we didn't have a two-ocean navy and that had to be built up. so this is a very serious situation. how, then, did we meet it? we met it largely by utilizing the one thing that americans had always done best, which was mass production. we invented it. we invented it in the auto industry. this is the first wholesale mechanized war in history, and you're talking about a count